Accessible chronological view

From foundations to clinical systems

This reviewed list offers a non-spatial route through the same atlas material.

1. 1537–1619Hieronymus Fabricius
2. 1561–1636Santorio Santorio
3. 1578–1657William Harvey
4. 1595Anatomical theatre of Padua
5. Influential account published 1603Venous valves
6. Circa 1612Clinical thermoscope
7. Published in 1628Circulation of blood
8. From the 17th centuryMicroscopy
9. From the 1780sBioelectricity
10. 1818–1865Ignaz Semmelweis
11. From 1820Electromagnetism
12. 1827–1912Joseph Lister
13. 1838–1839Cell theory
14. 1845–1923Wilhelm Röntgen
15. Public ether demonstration in 1846Anesthesia
16. Evidence-based hospital use from 1847Clinical handwashing
17. 1860–1927Willem Einthoven
18. Developed across the 19th centuryGerm theory
19. 1867–1934Marie Curie
20. From 1865–1867Antiseptic surgery
21. 1880Piezoelectricity
22. From the 1890s; electronic valve patented 1904Vacuum tube
23. 1895X-rays
24. From 1896Early radiography
25. Developed across the 19th–20th centuriesBlood transfusion
26. Clinically practical from 1903Electrocardiography
27. From the 1910sSonar
28. From 1931Electron microscopy
29. From the 1940sMedical ultrasound
30. From 1947Semiconductor transistor
31. 1953DNA structure
32. First durable major-organ success in 1954Organ transplantation
33. First human implantation in 1958Implantable pacemaker
34. From 1971Computed tomography
35. From 1973Magnetic resonance imaging
36. Conceived in 1983Polymerase chain reaction
37. Expanded clinically from the 1980s–1990sMolecular diagnostics